Human versus Animals: A Critical Reading of Anthropocentrism in Tiger for Breakfast

Abstract

This research on Michel Peissel’s Tiger for Breakfast shows how animals are represented in literature and here, the relationship of animals with humans is always portrayed in hierarchical terms; the latter dominating the former. Looking through the eco-critical frame, Peissel celebrates the anthropocentric ethics creating a round character like Boris fascinating with his hunting and entrepreneurship mindset besides Boris’s career as a ballet dancer. Here lies the true motive of dealing the relationship of tension between human and animals. Thus, this research seeks Peissel’s anthropocentric vision regarding the hunting activities as the finest sports among the sports exercised in the Indian sub-continent areas. And it, too, shows human and animals are the entities of the earth ecosystem and the cooperation between these two and especially human – a rational being have a greater role to balance the ecosystem and the bio-diversity avoiding the upcoming apocalypse.